Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-05
Bob 5ugers0il.
THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME OVER THE GREAT IN
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TIE CHANGE THAT HAS COME OVER THE GREAT IN
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New York correspondence Minneapolis Tribune.
Another well-known figure that sauntered up to
Mr.. Macaay's table az the Hoffman House the other
evening and remained for q moment or two was
that OF Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, whose face and
form are familiar to at least nine-tenthS Of the
metropolitan popuace. As he walks alon. the
street eight out OF every ten people turn around
and stare after him. and the only reason why the
other two do not follow the same course lies in the
TACT that they well acquainted with Inger-
soils presence as not to feel any further curiosity
about him. InCersou has changed remarkably
within the past year. AT that distance back
ne had succeeded in reducing himself, until
come down to ordinary portly proper
tons The theory was given out that he had
brought about this change by combining himself
exclusively TO a meat died-in other words, that
Col Ingersoll had cut of from his list OF edibles
a.! vegetable matter OF every Kind. The cure GER
tainly does not seem 10 have been at all perma-
nent. Tie great hereto orator IS fatter than he
ever was before in his lie, and moreover, he has
grown rapidly Old. AS he walks from place TO
clothes hang upon him ungrace1ully. and as
though they had been made for some other man.
IngeISoli, with all his superaDundance OF tissue,
used to be rather natty and elegant being. Now
lie looks more or less slouchy and careless, and he
mas also grown serious in his MANNER. In former
days his face beamed continually with a smile OF
broad and expansive proportions. Now he goes
along with his bands folded behind him, his eyes
liked upon the pavement. and an expression OF
nance. He brightenS up, however, when he meets
anybody he knows, and the old look OF
geniaity comes back into his face They
do say that since Ingersoll had his severe Illness
last winter he has not been the same man in the
bright and airy CareIeSaneS5 OF his daily life. do
not mean by this that there has been any altera-
ton in his views OF the hereafter. 1t Is merely
that his manner has changed. and that he has
grown to take more solemn and a less light view
OF things. He WAS pretty sick man during that
Illness OF his, and good many OF his friends
thought ht would never get well enough to resume
the practice OF his profession. He l., however,
bilSily engaged In his law offices, and when the
fall term OF opens he viii be one OF the busi-
est employed attorneys in New York. IngersOlfs
practice Is enormous and probably nets him
larger income than Is commanded by any other
lawyer in New lOTk, barring Roscoe C0nklng,
who, they say. is taking co5e TO 100000 year
III fees. Inger5Cu is an attorney for Mackay,
Stokes, and that clique Of operators in telegraph
COnp& hies, and his income from that source alone
Il large enough 10 enable him 10 i've In The most
gorgeous and expensive style. InEerSOll himself
Is hot great Spendthrlft, but what he lacks in
that direction Ills daughters make up. 1t /, said
in New YORK that they elbow in very large sums
annually In the ways which women most delight
II follow, and the dry goods stores profit to very
large extent from The IngersOil family, year III
ana year out. The Inger5OiS occupy Il handsome
mansion on 9TH avenue when they are in town.
The members OF the family, believe, are away
just II present at some one or the summer resorts,
but the head OF the home, To speak, prefers to
remain in New York and apply himself TO his law
cases